Build Automation Software Grid® Overview

The best Build Automation Software products are determined by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews)
and market presence (based on products’ scale, focus, and influence) and placed into four categories on the
Grid®:

Contenders have significant Market Presence and resources, but have received below average user Satisfaction
ratings or have not yet received a sufficient number of reviews to validate the solution.
Contenders include: Chef, GoCD, and AWS CodePipeline

Niche solutions do not have the Market Presence of the Leaders. They may have been rated positively on customer
Satisfaction, but have not yet received enough reviews to validate them.
Niche products include: Apache Ant, Gradle, and Shippable

Ship better code, faster. CircleCI’s continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. CircleCI offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day. CircleCI is available as a Hosted or On-Premise platform with Mobile (macOS and Android) available with each option.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Codeship is a hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery platform. It sits between your source code repository (e.g. GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket) and the hosting environment (e.g. Amazon Web Services) and automatically tests and deploys every change in your platform. Your Engineering team can focus on developing better applications instead of wasting time on maintaining a cumbersome CI server. Codeship scales with your needs, allows you to speed up your test suites and enables your developers to ship better code faster.
Update: Codeship now integrates with self hosted version of GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server and Gitlab. Learn more on our blog at https://blog.codeship.com/codeship-integrates-with-github-enterprise

TeamCity will make sure your software gets built, tested, and deployed, and you get notified about that appropriately, in any way you choose. It’s a continuous integration and deployment server from JetBrains which takes moments to set up, shows your build results on-the-fly, and works out of the box. And best of all – it’s free by default.

Bamboo is Atlassian's continuous delivery and release management tool. It offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery, tying automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single, integrated workflow. Bamboo gives developers, testers, build engineers, and system administrators a common space to work and share information – while still keeping sensitive operations like production deploys locked down.
Got Git? Bamboo puts branches under test automatically, as well as merges and deploys them according to your team’s processes. And because Bamboo is from Atlassian, it boasts the best Bitbucket and JIRA Software integration available.
Visit out continuous delivery microsite to learn more about CI/ CD and best practices: https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery

Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code.

Database DevOps Platform (previously TeamWork) has been re-released in 2017. The new version combines version control and release automation tools to help organizations run database deployments smoothly and efficiently, increase productivity of DBA teams and significantly decrease time-to-market, all while implementing security and compliance at the database core.

Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.

CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating software development and delivery. CloudBees starts with Jenkins, the most trusted and widely-adopted continuous delivery platform, and adds enterprise-grade security, scalability, manageability and expert-level support. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software and returning value to the business more quickly.

An award-winning open platform for collaborative software development, TeamForge helps leading companies and government agencies accelerate software delivery while maintaining the highest standards of governance, compliance, and IP security. Boost development productivity with Agile, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and DevOps. Equip cross-functional teams with best-of-breed tools, while maintaining governance, compliance, and code security standards.
Create high-quality applications at speed with this open, extensible, and flexible platform. Build an integrated application delivery pipeline from best-of-breed commercial and open source tools like Artifactory®, Chef®, Git®, Gerrit®, HP® ALM, JIRA® Software, Jenkins®, Nexus®, Subversion®, TeamCity®, and TestLink®. Leverage the development methodologies—Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid—and version control systems—Git or Subversion—as appropriate for your IT and business needs.
Connect cross-functional and distributed teams, helping them effectively collaborate and share
expertise, best practices, and code. Drive development efficiency by enabling the reuse of existing assets, resources, and processes in new projects.
CollabNet’s leadership in Agile training and consulting builds an introduction to Agile development practices in a way and at a pace that best fit your organization—from
empowering Agile teams to facilitating global enterprise wide Agile transformations. Adopt the Agile methods of your choice—Scrum, Kanban, or others—and implement Agile throughout your entire application lifecycle, from planning (upstream) to deployment (downstream).

BuildMaster lets you release your software reliably, to any environment, at whatever pace the business demands.
Build a self-service release management platform by allowing different teams to manage their own applications and deploy to their own environments.
Start simple and then scale to thousands of servers and the cloud.

vRealize Automation enables IT Automation through the creation and management of personalized infrastructure, application and custom IT services (XaaS). This IT Automation lets you deploy IT services rapidly across a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure.

Delphix’s mission is to connect people to data and accelerate innovation. Fortune 100 companies use the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to connect, virtualize, secure and manage data in the cloud and in on-premise environments. For more information visit www.delphix.com.

ElectricFlow Build-Test automates and standardizes the software build and test production process for even the largest, most complex organizations - providing reduced costs, increase quality, reliability and traceability, and accelerate time to market.

Embotics is the cloud automation company for IT organizations and service providers that need to improve provisioning or enable self-service capabilities. With a relentless focus on delivering a premier user experience and unmatched customer support, Embotics is the fastest and easiest way to automate provisioning across private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructures. Its flagship product, Embotics vCommander, is used by organizations including Nordstrom, NASA, Fanatics, Informatica and Charter Communications.
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